PERFORMA
Production in just one pass
Following a fact-finding tour through the USA, Alkemade Printing’s owner and managing director Rémon Alkemade faced a dilemma: should he invest in a high-performance digital colour printer or go for a new litho printing press? His management team helped him reach a decision by urging the need to walk the talk in terms of quality, which meant opting for the press. And not just any press but a four-colour coater version of the Performa 74.
Profitable alliance between medium and half-size format
Arts Print recently pushed the button on a five-colour Performa 74 coater press as part of a co-operative agreement with a bigger printer specialising in the B1 (41in) format.The value added the new press delivers, and the ability to exploit synergies between medium and half-size format, have given the company a dynamic boost.
KBA Performa in Argraf - The right choice
Argraf is a small Warsaw printshop located in the ground floor of a building on the banks of the Visla River. The printshop employs 18 people of which 12 work in production. The company built their position and name on the local market mainly due to orders from the printing of books and magazines which deal with historical topics. The increasing demands from clients pushed the company management into purchasing a new KBA Performa 74 press from the Dobruška factory.
KBA Performa in Unidruk
We visited the Krakow company of Unidruk due to reasons of the latest investment in the form of a five-colour KBA Performa 74 printing press. Next year, the company will celebrate 15 years of its existence. The printshop uses new technologies to the fullest possible extent – the majority of orders arrive via the internet.
Filip printshop continues to develop
The Filip printshop was founded in 1990 as a small company providing graphic art services. In the first five years, the services were provided on an incompatible single colour printing press of the SRB3 format.
H&B Tisk Opava with KBA Performa 74-5 and 66-2 machines
The H&B Tisk company was founded in August 1989 as a two person partnership. It was the first privately owned printshop to be established in Opava where they started production with just one Grafopress. However, the company development is actually linked to the Dobruška printing machines. The owners transformed the company in 1997 into a joint stock company. Counting 43 employees, the company currently falls into the medium size group of graphic art companies. H&B Tisk extended their printing capacity with the KBA Performa 74-5 and KBA Performa 66-2 machines in the first half of this year. The first machine purchased in Dobruška in 1993 was the Polly 745. The printing machines have served reliably up to the present day and are still in a good technical condition after fourteen years of operation. The Director and the Chairman of the Board of the H&B Tisk joint stock company, Mr Zdeněk Bielák, said: “We are happy with the machine. Grafitec provides an operative service as required. The service care from Dobruška is perfect and the production company has certainly benefited from the merger with KBA."
In June, six Performa machines went to Czech printshops
The KBA-Grafitec company has confirmed its leading position in the production of printing machines in the Czech Republic. At the same time, the company also leads the way in the supply of printing machines in the SRA2 format on the Czech market. In June, the company supplied the Czech Republic printshops with a total of six KBA Performa 74 and KBA Performa 66 printing machines in the total range of 29 printing units. From these six machines, two are in the SRB2 format.
Pilot application at Luthe in Cologne
It was officially launched on the market in December 2006: an automatically convertible perfecting capability for the Performa 74. Luthe Druck und Medienservice in Cologne has been putting it through its paces – and is keen as mustard.
KBA Performa machines gaining success on the Turkish market
The KBA-Grafitec expedited to Turkey another KBA Performa 74 machine in the middle of January. Already, this is the seventeenth printing machine of the SRB2 format sold by Grafitec on the Turkish market since cooperation was established with the Mat Group distribution company. The printshop of the Mega Matbaa company has become the owner of a KBA Performa 74-5. The same machine was also installed in the Onur offset printshop in Ankara in the middle of January.
KBA-Grafitec machines for the Moravian printshops
KBA-Grafitec sold printing machines and services worth more than one billion crowns in 2006. The expansion of the KBA Performa printing machines sales to the printshops in Moravia also contributed to the sales revenue of over one billion crowns. Litera, Brko and Nosova tiskárna from Brno as well as Seritech from Šternberk were among those printshops located in the eastern region of the Czech Republic which installed printing machines produced in Dobruška before the end of the year.
Litera Brno with the KBA Performa 66-4 printing machine
The Litera printshop from Brno strengthened their production capacity in the final quarter of the last year with the new four-colour KBA Performa 66-4 printing machine of the SRA2 format. The Litera company has been investing purely in printing machines produced in Dobruška since 1994. At that time the printshop purchased a two-colour Polly 725 machine completed with a perfector. The machine has been reliably working up to the present day. The Litera owners as well as the company management particularly appreciate the good performance and price relation of the KBA-Grafitec printing machines. The Polly and Performa printing machines above all reliably cater for all the requirements resulting from the composition and character of the orders. “One of the advantages of the KBA-Grafitec printing machines is the guaranteed service and the spare parts available at a favourable price”, stated Vladislav Pokorný, MBA, the co-owner and director of the printshop.
Creative family enterprise auf KBA Performa 66
A pioneering spirit is not the preserve of big business, German printshop Franz Lovischach in Lüdenscheid, with its payroll of six, can testify. In 1966 it was just the fourth in the country to install a Berthold Diatype filmsetter and in March 2006 it flicked the switch on the first KBA Performa 66 in Germany – and the third worldwide – to sport an inline coater.
Another KBA Performa in USA
Newcastle, Maine, USA - KBA – North America has recently completed the installation of a Performa PE 74 - 4 at Lincoln County Publishing. The machine was sold by KBA - N.A. dealer, Graphics Equipment of Portland Maine and is the third machine of KBA-Grafitec production for this long standing customer.
Retis Krnov: KBA Performa 74-5 replaces the Polly 466
11 September 2006 – The KBA Performa 74 printing machine in the SRB2 format has now infiltrated into Czech printshops. The five-colour Performa 74-5 was one of the most recent installations provided in June for the Retis company in Krnov.
Dragon Press: KBA Performa 66-4 replaces Polly 745
The Dragon Press print shop in Klatovy was established during the revolution days of 1989. “At that time, Michal Kučera and his first partner got hold of one of the oldest types of Romayor without an inking unit and used it to print information materials,” says Mr. Josef Majer, joint owner and executive head of Dragon Press Ltd., describing the company's first printing machine. Over the course of sixteen years, the company has used a number of different printing machines – the most recent one is KBA Performa 66-4.
KUFR PRAHA with KBA PERFORMA 66-4
The KUFR Publishing House was founded in 1994 in Prague. It started in a “garage” print shop with an old Romayor. “We had to fix the machine ourselves, first,” remembers the company's founder, Mr. František Kurzweil. All the multi-colour machines the company purchased since then came from Dobruška. In May this year, KUFR purchased a KBA Performa 66-4 printing machine.
SAMBA Sedlčany uses printing machines and CtP from KBA-Grafitec
The printing house SAMBA servis Ltd. is well known in the market for its close co-operation with the company BOBO BLOK. Recently it has moved from Vrchotovy Janovice to Sedlčany. It prints on machines from Dobruška and prepares printing plates with the CtP Presstek device supplied by KBA-Grafitec.
Jade Press snaps up the UK’s first KBA Performa 74
Jade Press, Leeds is buying the first KBA Performa 74 to be installed in the UK. It will add to the company’s existing KBA press, a Rapida 74 six colour installed only last year.
Germany’s first KBA Performa 74 goes live at Stöckl in Mannheim
German print boutique Stöckle offers a complete range of services from pre-press, digital studio photography,
offset and digital print production to finishing and logistics. Established more than 70 years ago, the company is still in the
hands of the founding family, four of which now run the firm assisted by five employees. In mid-February Stöckl replaced an
ageing four-colour press with a KBA Performa 74 five-colour for the same sheet size.
First KBA Performa 74 in Benelux
How does a printing firm find precisely the right press to meet all its needs? Not just for the present, but for the future as well? After checking out the market, Gazelle in Belgium opted for the first KBA Performa 74 in the Benelux states. “It is the ideal press for all our needs,” says John Verbiest, one of the two members of the administrative board.
The factors that played the main part for choosing the KBA Performa 74 were the generous fittings and favourable price
Mr. Marek Urban, the company owner and Director of the BAAD, Sp .z.o.o. offset printshop from Nowy Szac, gives in the following article the details and reasons behind the purchase of the KBA Performa 74 in the interview with Adam Slazynski from KBA-Grafitec.
First KBA Performa 74 in Africa
Fineline Print Solutions in Cape Town is making news by being the first printer in Africa to install a KBA Performa 74
half-size press, reports Gill Loubser.
Garamon becomes a reference printing house
The Garamon printing and publishing house has been operating in Hradec Králové since 1997. It is entering its 10th year in business as a successful medium-sized company with all the necessary technologies for the preparation, printing and finishing processes at its disposal. The newest piece of equipment, installed at the beginning of February 2006, is a KBA Performa 74-4 printing machine.
KBA Performa 74-5+L in Las Vegas
September 2005 saw KBA-Grafitec launched on the North American market for the first time as part of the KBA group at the Print 05 exhibition in Chicago. The company exhibited the fully equipped KBA Performa 74-5+L which now functions in the Full Color Printing printshop in Las Vegas.
Innovation in the SPORI PRINT V printshop in Esztergom
Esztergom / One of the most beautiful Hungarian towns where the traditional past meets the industrial future is the location for the SPORI PRINT V company, founded in 1991. Consisting of twenty employees, this printshop is the main print supplier for the Japanese car company Suzuki, located close to the printshop. Prints for Suzuki subcontractors and for the Esztergom town authority form a substantial part of the printshop production.
The 66-4 Performa in Újezd nad Lesy
Dobruška/Prague-Újezd nad Lesy: The KBA-Grafitec company has noted on the Czech market that there has been an increased interest in their Performa printing machines in both format lines since the EmbaxPrint exhibition in May. The demand from the Czech printshops for the Performa 74 in the SRB2 format and also for the Performa 66 in the SRA2 format has been increasing. The smaller of the format lines tends to be favoured by the small and medium size companies mainly for such reasons as the optimal relation of the price, efficiency and the quality. A good example of the effective use of the KBA-Grafitec small-format printing machines is in the printshop of Mr. Petr Chrt from Újezd nad Lesy. This company has been printing with the KBA-Performa 66-4 since the middle of October.
Performa 74-5 reinforces the FGP Studio in Olomouc
Dobruška/Olomouc: The FGP Studio printshop in Olomouc is known for their focus on Dobruška printing machines. They have enlarged their printing capacity by purchasing the five-colour KBA Performa 74-5 at the end of October/beginning of November. The new printing machine is the first one in the SRB2 format to be used by the printshop.
Blue Performa 74 in Polygrafie Fabisiak
In the middle of October, the KBA Performa 74 sheet- fed offset press was installed in the Poznan based company, Polygrafie Fabisiak. The new "blue" series was only put on sale a few months ago and the press, for which the purchase contract was signed at the Polygrafia exhibition in Poznan, has replaced a veteran two colour press, which also came from the Dobruška Company.
Multipol and KBA-Performa understand each other well
Mr. Michal Maslanka from the Multipol printshop has known the products from the Czech printshop in Dobruška for many years. This is why he has had the chance to carefully observe all the key activities of the Grafitec Company since the beginning of this year - the beginning of direct sales to the Polish market, the March acquisition by KBA and the subsequent rise of KBA-Grafitec and with that the introduction of the KBA-Performa "blue" offset machines, the successful follow up to the Prestige and Performer sheet-fed offset presses. Mr. Maslanka was also one of the first Polish customers to receive the new blue KBA-Performa. While interviewed by Mr. Adam Slazynsky from KBA-Grafitec, Mr. Maslanka described the details and reasons for such a purchase.
KBA Performa 74-5 replaces Polly 755
Dobruška/Opava: The Grafico printshop was founded by its owner Michal Štěpánek in 1995. Prior to that Mr Štěpánek studied at economics university. As a student he went to France to work during the wine harvests. He invested the money he made into computer equipment and began to process typesetting for Opava printshops. He soon had problems with order deadlines at the partner printshops, a problem that he resolved by founding his own printshop.
Performa 66-4 takes over from Polly 466
Not long ago a KBA Performa 66-4 replaced a Polly 466 at the Wendy printshop in Mělník. The Performa 66-4 is now the third printing machine from Dobruška.
The SWL company in Prague-Uhříněves prints on Performa 74-5
After Grafitec integration into the KBA group, the external design of the printing presses
manufactured in Dobruška also changed. The green colour of the Polly Performer 66 and Polly
Prestige 74 printing presses was substituted by the blue finish of the Performa 66 and Performa 74
line, which is the typical external appearance of all KBA products.
KBA Performa 66-5 at Uniprint Rychnov nad Kněžnou
Since 1992 Uniprint, s.r.o., in Rychnov nad Kněžnou, has exclusively printed with printing machines from Dobruška. At the start of June the KBA Performa 66-5 had its premiere in the printshop. The machine was exhibited at the EmbaxPrint trade fair in Brno, where KBA-Grafitec presented itself as a member of the KBA group in the Czech Republic for the first time.
